Agenda

Summit Format

The Summit provides a unique mix of Gartner Research presentations, Guest Keynote Addresses, Real-Life Case Studies, Interactive Panel Discussions and Selected Industry Sessions to provide you with a holistic view of the business intelligence and performance management landscape. Information, insight and advice are channeled through an increasingly targeted and focused approach, taking you from the high-level strategic view all the way to your specific issue.

Plenary Sessions
In our renowned plenary sessions, you'll hear what today's leading figures are thinking. Gartner analysts and invited experts will give you strategic insights, thought-provoking points of view and forward-thinking advice that will help shape your planning.

Track Sessions
Presented by Gartner analysts, invited guest speakers and industry presenters, these sessions offer the very latest topical updates and actionable insights on the subjects most critical to your organizational development and innovation.

Workshops
Workshops provide you with a forum to listen to subject-matter experts, interact with fellow delegates and work together to develop best practices that can be put to practical use after the summit. The workshops provide an opportunity to delve deeply into specific critical topics including markets, technologies and business issues.

Gartner Analyst User Roundtables (AUR)
Moderated by a Gartner analyst, these sessions are a great forum for hearing what your industry peers are experiencing on issues similar to those you face. Be prepared to join the discussion and share best practices and practical advice. All end-user attendees at the event are invited to register for Analyst/User Roundtables by reserving at the Gartner One-on-One Reservation Desk.

Gartner Analysts One-on-One Meetings
Meeting face-to-face with a Gartner Analyst is one of the key benefits of attending a Gartner Summit. Personalize your 30 minute private appointment to discuss your specific issue and walk away with invaluable, tailor made advice.

Summit Tracks

Track 1: Plan: Develop a Strategic Approach to BI and performance Management
Information derived from business intelligence systems is rarely linked directly to business decisions. Most organizations still struggle with fragmented BI initiatives, proliferation of BI tools and silos of departmental analytic applications. Bringing these initiatives together into a coherent strategy is vital for success in BI, analytics and performance management. This track will consider how to develop and deliver a successful BI strategy that brings these different elements together into a strategy that will maximize your return on investments in BI and associated technologies.

Track 2: Platform: Evaluate Market, Tools & Technologies for Better Investments
The BI marketplace continues to grow more complex. Markets are increasingly dominated by mega-vendors, which is forcing organizations to re-examine their vendor selection. Meanwhile, emerging trends and alternative delivery models are radically changing views of how to build and deploy BI. Sessions in this track provide a deeper understanding of these shifts in areas of BI platforms, data warehousing, data integration and quality, and ways of integrating those emerging technologies with existing infrastructure - as well as a view on how the market will change in the next few years.

Track 3: People: Building Stronger Partnerships With The Business
Adoption of BI usage is predicted to double within organizations in the next five years, and IT is struggling to manage this increased demand. Because of this, Gartner predicts that 40% of BI budgets will be held by business units by 2012. It is therefore imperative that all areas of the business and IT work together to ensure success through the effective use of BI, analytics and performance management initiatives. This track focuses on the management frameworks, governance issues, compliance to achieve consistency as well as best practices for establishing excellence centers.

Track 4: Performance: Managing Performance Rather Than Just Measuring It
The demanding business environment has driven an increased requirement for analytic applications that support performance management. However a lack of knowledge and understanding means that most of these applications are failing to deliver significant improvements in business performance management. This track addresses the business benefits of performance management and other analytic applications, and details best practices around the application of analytics in business domains. Learn how to link performance management to planning, budgets and operational activities to aid strategy execution, as well as identifying the right metrics to improve organizational performance.

Hot Topics

The conference will focus on several key Business Intelligence issues:

• Key steps to making Business Intelligence strategic
• Creating a BI and performance management strategy to widen the use of BI
• The evolving role of corporate performance management
• Role, structure and organization of the BI Competency Center
• Identifying the right metrics to measure performance
• The Data Warehouse in a time of data explosion
• New delivery models: Open Source and BI "as a service"
• The impact of SOA on BI
• Trends in Enterprise Information Management (EIM) and Master Data Management
• Difficult choices in the Data Quality tools market
• Portal strategies for BI integration
• Business Activity Monitoring and the rise of process-driven BI
• Determining the "return on BI"
• Performance management and compliance
• BI market trends and the increasing impact of the mega-vendors
• Best practices in budgeting, planning & forecasting

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